James Hirsen

With biblical principles stripped away, "A Wrinkle in Time" is essentially a naked attempt at New Age propaganda. It is a fable cloaked in the moth-eaten fabric of cunning deception and hollow self-worship.

The announcement of the indictment of the Russians may have been timed to provide the media with the desired talking points that would lead a susceptible public to conclude that the special counsel’s probe was in no way a hoax, a witch hunt, or any other "unfair" characterization.

The substance of would-be Oscar winning films is so culturally and politically correct that the 90th Academy Awards show, which is slated for March 4, will no doubt be saturated with a kind of sermonizing likely to leave Americans briskly switching channels.

The idea of using media to focus public attention on a singular topic is in no way new. However, the scope of this particular digital phenomenon is. So, too, are the capacity and speed at which a hashtag can potentially influence public opinion.